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" ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. "
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by Francis Bacon - 1858
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Books and Ideals: An Anthology

Edmund Kemper Broadus - 1921 - 228 pages
...goings of the serpent ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...such a disgrace, and such an odious charge, saith he, // it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say as that he is brave towards God and...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. * The poet, Lucretius, a Roman poet, of the "sect" of the Epicureans. And therefore Montaigne saith...
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Texas Review, Volume 7

1922 - 384 pages
...a lie" a pleasure, does the mixing so cleverly that the lie is not evident. "There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious, ' ' remarks Bacon, the keen observer; but to make a good story is not considered perfidy in the newspaper...
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Representative English Essays

Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 pages
...goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...
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Century Types of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged

George William McClelland - 1925 - 1178 pages
...goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that Bridget. 6 "I wish the good old times would come again,"...she was pleased to ramble on—"in which I am sur // it be well weighed, to say that a man licth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolf Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - 1923 - 392 pages
...goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne3 saith prettily, when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace,...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...goings of the serpent. ; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that d seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The Grasshopper's...grassy hills. ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER 7/ // be well weighed, to say that a man lielh, is as much to say, as that he is brave tou'ards Cod...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men." For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man. Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 3

1909 - 378 pages
...goings of the serpent; which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false...such a disgrace and such an odious charge. Saith he, // it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God...
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